[TheForge] Gas Forge Recommendation

[keporter at comcast.net]

> also found that Pieh Tools sells one (at least) brand for about $6,250.00 
> and that is WAY out of my price range. They were the only one in the US 
> that I could find in a quick search that sells anything like this. 

I believe they are selling Flamefast equipment. Flamefast is famous for equiping European school systems with the safest tooling possible. Also, like most English equipment, there forges and furnaces are fitted with compression motors in order to handle low pressure butane in burners and hand torches. The point here being that a large percentage of the equipment's price goes for irrelevant or inapropriate tooling. When their equipment is fitted for propane, you still don't get a price break. I have written back and forth with their management and have become farily familiar with their products, which are simply out of date; technology moved on, and they haven't so far. It's like a fifties Chevy or Ford trying to compete with a modern Honda; why would you go there?
Mike P.